12. Ryan Lizza, “Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama,” New Yorker, July 21, 2008.
13. “Obama Caught Saying ACORN and Friends Will Shape His Presidential Agenda,” YouTube.com, October 11, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&e.
14. Sam Graham-Felsen, “ACORN Political Action Committee Endorses Obama,” Organizing For America, February 21, 2008, http://my.barackobama.com/page/community
/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm.
15. “Rep. Steve King Says any ACORN Investigation ‘Will Lead to the White House’ - Video 12/4/09,” Freedom’s Lighthouse, December 4, 2009, http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/12
/rep-steve-king-says-any-acorn.html.
16. Pamela Geller, “ACORN Throws Out Republican Voter Registrations,” Big Government, October 7, 2009, http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/07/acorn-throws-
out-republican-voter-registrations/.
17. Thomas Lifson, “Obama Campaign Now Publishing Lies on His Ties to Acorn,” American Thinker, October 10, 2008.
18. Chad Groening, “Praise of Mao should be White House no-no,” One News Now, October 28, 2009, http://onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=740592.
19. John Boehner, “Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN,” Big Government, December 9, 2009, http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/09/dems
-vote-to-allow-federal-funding-for
-corrupt-acorn/.
20. Scanlon, “Is ACORN disenfranchising the process itself?”
21. Matthew Vadum, “ACORN’s Stimulus,” American Spectator, January 27, 2009.
22. Bill Hemmer of FOX News stated on America’s Newsroom, February 3, 2010: “We’re learning the community organizing group ACORN may stand to benefit from this $3.8 trillion proposal.” See also Matthew Vadum, “Show ACORN the Money,” American Spectator, February 2, 2010.
23. Boehner, “Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN.”
24. George Stephanopoulos, “Obama on ACORN: ‘Not Something I’ve Followed Closely’ Won’t Commit to Cut Federal Funds,” ABCNews.com, September 20, 2009, http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/09/
obama-on-acorn-not-something-ive-
followed-closely.html.
25. Boehner, “Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN.”
FOURTEEN: THE ENERGY SHELL GAME
1. John M. Broder, “U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah,” New York Times, October 8, 2009.
2. Sarah Palin, “Drill: Petroleum is a Major Part of America’s Energy Picture. Shall We Get It Here or Abroad?” National Review, October 16, 2009.
3. John Carey, “House Passes Carbon Cap-and-Trade Bill,” BusinessWeek, June 26, 2009; Peter Ferrara, “Cap and Trade Dementia,” American Spectator, July 1, 2009.
4. “The Cap and Tax Fiction,” Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2009.
5. Tom LoBianco, “Obama Counting On Cap-and-Trade,” Washington Times, February 25, 2009.
6. Declan McCullagh, “Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year,” CBS News, September 15, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15
/taking_liberties/entry5314040.shtml.
7. “The Cap and Tax Fiction.”
8. Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Energy Plan: Mandated Scarcity in the Richest Country in the World,” AtlasShrugs.com, August 17, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/08/obamas-energy-plan-mandated-scarcity
-in-the-richest-country-in
-the-world.html.
9. “The Cap and Tax Fiction.”
10. Karl Rove, “Scrap Cap-and-Trade,” Newsweek, October 31, 2009.
11. Ibid.
12. On Obama Calling It a Jobs Bill, cf. Peter Ferrara, “Cap and Trade Dementia,” American Spectator, July 1, 2009.
13. Amanda DeBard, “Energy Job Losers Could Get Windfall,” Washington Times, July 3, 2009.
14. Sarah Palin, “The ‘Cap And Tax’ Dead End,” Washington Post, July 14, 2009.
15. Geller, “Obama’s Energy Plan: Mandated Scarcity in the Richest Country in the World.”
16. David Freddoso, “Don’t Buy Those Carbon Credits Just Yet,” Examiner (Washington), November 10, 2009, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/
blogs/beltway-confidential/Dont-buy-
those-carbon-credits-just-yet-69645032.html.
17. Peter Ferrara, “Cap and Trade Dementia,” American Spectator, July 1, 2009.
18. Tim Ball, “The Death Blow to Climate Science,” Canada Free Press, November 21, 2009, http://canadafreepress.com/index
.php/members/17102/Ball/.
19. James Delingpole, “Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?” Telegraph, November 20, 2009.
20. Ball, “The Death Blow to Climate Science.”
21. Andrew C. Revkin, “Hacked E-Mail is New Fodder for Climate Dispute,” New York Times, November 20, 2009.
22. Andrew C. Revkin, “Private Climate Conversations on Display,” New York Times, November 20, 2009.
23. “Leaked E-mails Muddy Waters Ahead of Climate Change Conference,” FOXNews.com, November 30, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/30
/leaked-e-mails-muddy-waters-ahead-climate
-change-conference/?utm_source=feedburner
&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign
=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics
+%2528FOXNews.com+-+Politics%2529&
utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher.
24. Ben Geman, “EPA chief: The hacked e-mails change nothing,” The Hill, December 7, 2009, http://thehill.com//blogs/e2-wire/677-e2
-wire/70943-epa-chief-the-hacked-emails-
dont-change-a-thing.
25. Jake Tapper, “White House Pushes Back on Climate Change Email Controversy,” ABC News, December 3, 2009, http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch
/2009/12/white-house-pushes-back-on-
climate-change-email-controversy.html.
26. David Rochelson, “The search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us,” Change.gov, December 20, 2008, http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/the_search_for
_knowledge_truth_and_a_greater
_understanding_of_the_world_aro.
27. Sarah Palin, “Mr. President: Boycott Copenhagen; Investigate Your Climate Change ‘Experts,’” Sarah Palin’s Notes, Facebook.com, December 3, 2009.
28. Sarah Palin, “Copenhagen’s Political Science,” Washington Post, December 9, 2009.
EPILOGUE: WHAT LOVERS OF FREEDOM MUST DO
1. George Jahn, “Analysis: A year on, Iran, NKorea threats worsen,” Associated Press, December 13, 2009.
2. See F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
3. “Howard Dean has a point on capitalism and socialism,” Free Frank Warner, December 5, 2009, http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_
frank_warner/2009/12/howard-dean
-has-a-point-on-capitalism-and
-socialism.html?cid=6a00d83451cd37
69e20128761c4ae6970c.
4. Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual (New York: Signet, 1963), p. 46.
5. Kathleen Gilbert, “Lech Walesa: World Has ‘Lost Hope’ of America’s Moral Leadership,” LifeSite News, February 5, 2010.
Acknowledgments
Much thanks to attorney John Jay for helping me parse through the legal language of the Copenhagen climate change documents; to Scott Mendel for his efforts on behalf of this book; and to Mitchell Ivers and his colleagues at Threshold for their excellent work on the manuscript. But most of all, deepest gratitude to my Atlas Shrugs readers, those great Americans and freedom lovers who sent me news tips and other material that helped me expose Obama’s agenda and activities—mwah!
INDEX
Abbas, Mahmoud, 114, 146
Abdi, Sheikh Abdullahi, 70–71
Abdullah, Luqman Ameen, 219
Abraham, 191–92
Abunimah, Ali, 74–75
Adams, John, 203
Adams, Samuel, 327
Afghanistan, 97, 166–78, 220, 224
civil war in, 182
Iranian relations of, 152, 156
Obama on, x, 166–69, 171–78, 180–82, 198, 200, 222, 231
Taliban in, 170–72, 176, 182
U.S. war in, 5, 166–69, 171–73, 175–78, 181, 207, 222, 231
U.S. withdrawal from, 166–67, 173, 177
Africa, 15, 56, 70, 78, 97, 233, 281
African-Americans, 40–41, 49, 281
ACORN and, 302, 304–5, 307–8
anti-Semitism and, 79
discrimination against, 216, 238–47
Obama’s college years and, 60–61
Obama’s czars and, 299–300
Palestinians compared to, 187–88
Wright and, 65–67, 77–78
Agha-Soltan, Neda, 143–44
Ahmad, Omar, 43
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, xiii, 72, 109, 261
Iranian elections and, 142, 144–45
Iranian nuclear weapons program and, 139, 155, 159
Obama’s Iranian policy and, 139–42, 155, 159
al-Awlaki, Anwar, 215
Al-Banna, Hassan, 107
Alikhan, Arif, 211–12
Alinsky, Saul, 62, 174–75, 272, 274, 282
Allen, George, 242
Almaleki, Noor, 187
al-Mansour, Khalid, 75, 82–83, 93
Al-Qaeda, 69, 108, 168–69, 172, 229
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 75–76, 103–5, 107, 116, 122–23
Antoun, Richard, 218
Arafat, Yasir, 92, 95
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), 32
Assad, Basher, 110
Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN), 302–11
federal funding of, 304–5, 309–11
health care and, 244–46, 284
Obama’s association with, 304–6, 308–11
partisanship of, 306–8, 311
voter fraud of, 302–3, 305–6, 308, 311
Audacity of Hope, The (Obama), 37, 57–58, 67, 288
auto industry, 67–68, 269–70
Axelrod, David, 81, 208, 250, 305
health care and, 271–72
Ayalon, Danny, 159
Ayers, William, 61–64, 266
anti-Semitism of, 75–77, 98
Obama’s relationship with, 40, 61, 63, 72, 75–77, 84, 236
Ball, Tim, 320–21
Barone, Michael, 236
Barzinji, Jamal M., 87–88
Bashir, Omar, 5–6
Bat Ye’or, 45, 184–86, 205, 227
Bauer, Robert, 306, 309
Bayefsky, Anne, 129, 160
Beaumont, Thomas, 105
Beck, Glenn, 26, 73, 247–48, 300
Being Muslim in America, 189–90
Berlau, John, 269
Berry, John, 285–86
Beshier, Yvette, 212–13
Biden, Joe, 15, 170–71, 237, 242
bin Laden, Osama, 10, 85, 179, 199, 211, 218
Blow, Charles M., 242–43
Blumenauer, Earl, 247
Blunt, Matt, 236–37
Bolton, John R., vii–x, 14, 156–59
gun control and, 32–33
Iranian nuclear weapons program and, x, 137–38, 156–58, 161–62
missile defense system and, 134
on norming, 2
Obama’s Iranian policy and, 137, 157–59, 161–62
Obama’s Israeli policy and, 73, 127, 158
on Obama’s Nobel Prize speech, 175
torture and, 224–26
on U.S. exceptionalism, vii–ix
Booker, Christopher, 144
Boot, Max, 177
Boroumand, Roya, 148
Brooks, Rosa, 93–95
Brown, David B., 245–46
Browner, Carol M., 296–98, 322–23
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 92–94
Burns, William J., 130
Burton, Bill, 256
Bush, George H. W., ix, 3
Bush, George W., 211, 281–82, 306
Afghani war and, 167, 172
executive branch power under, 290
Fort Hood massacre and, 215
gun control and, 32
internationalism and, 2–3, 5–6
Iranian policy of, 147–48, 152
Iraqi war and, 6, 167–68, 172
Israeli policy and, 95, 100, 124–25
leftist criticisms of, 238, 242
missile defense system and, 134
Obama’s Nobel Prize and, 174
Obama’s socialism and, 286
presidential campaigns of, 282
Syrian relations and, 109, 111
terrorism and, 219, 228, 230
torture and, 224–25, 230
Bybee, Jay, 225
Byrd, Robert, 291–92
Caddell, Pat, 251
Caesar, Julius, 287–88
Cairo, Obama’s speech in, 49–52, 131, 141–42, 179–81, 184–86, 198–99, 203, 208, 212–14
Camp David talks, 92
Cantor, Eric, 291–92
cap-and-trade plan, xix, 314–19, 321–24
Carnahan, Russ, 245–46
Carpenter, Amanda, 303
Carter, Jimmy, 92, 240, 251
Castor, Kathy, 244–45
Catholics, 30, 53–54, 188
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 143, 219, 223–25, 310
Chang, Ben, 6
Changing Course, 196–99
Chávez, Hugo, xviii, 135–36, 238
Cheney, Dick, xvi–xviii, 228
on Obama’s radicalism, xvii–xviii
torture and, 225
on U.S. exceptionalism, xvi
Cherlin, Reid, 26
China, 3, 23, 260, 279, 288, 325
energy policy and, 315–17
Iranian nuclear weapons program and, 155, 158
Obama’s visit to, ix-x
Christians, 39, 48–58, 65–66, 68, 74, 77, 82
in Indonesia, 53–54
Islam and, 7, 46, 50, 53–58, 77, 187–88, 190–91, 202, 205, 231, 263
Kenyan politics and, 70–71
Obama on, 49–52, 54–55, 201–2, 208
Obama’s grandmother and, 55–56
right-wing, 108
Civil Rights Act, 206
climate change, 1, 16–22, 220
and cap-and-trade program, 314, 316, 318–19, 321–24
energy and, 296–98, 314, 316, 318–19, 323
as hoax, 22, 25, 319–24
Monckton on, 20–22, 319
Obama’s czars and, 296–99, 322–24
Clinton, Bill, xvii, 218–19, 287
Clinton, Hillary, 47, 62, 89
on free speech, 261
on health care, 278–79
on international law, 5, 227
Islamic policy and, 180, 210
Obama’s Israeli policy and, 116, 126–27
Cole, Juan, 47–48
Columbia University, 61, 83, 261–62, 265–66
Communism, 3, 60–63, 178, 279, 294, 309
ACORN and, 304
Afghani policy and, 182
comparisons between Islam and, 33–34
free speech and, 237
in Kenya, 69
net neutrality and, 259–60
Obama’s college years and, 60–61
Obama’s czars and, 299–300
and Obama’s family and friends, 38–41, 61–63, 65, 72, 76
Congress, U.S., 4, 28, 43, 88, 97, 116, 228, 328
ACORN and, 310–11
executive branch power and, 290
free speech and, 235, 257
gun control and, 2, 32–33
Iranian policy and, 147, 151–53
Islam and, 189, 197, 203, 209, 214
Obama’s czars and, 290–91
Obama’s socialism and, 268, 286
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.<
br />
Constitution, U.S., xv–xvi, 15, 36, 135, 292, 295, 327
climate change and, 21
energy policy and, 319
free speech and, xv, 10–11, 32, 44, 46, 235, 252, 260–61, 264
gun control and, 24, 31–33
health care and, 288
Islam and, 43–44, 189–90, 194, 203, 205
Koh’s internationalism and, 26, 28
Obama’s socialism and, 266–67
Sotomayor and, 22–24
trying 9/11 masterminds and, 228
Copenhagen, Copenhagen Accord, 17, 20, 321–24
Cornyn, John, 255
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 43–44, 88, 214, 264
Courrielche, Patrick, 283–84
Creamer, Robert, 272–73
Crowley, James, 216, 241
Cunningham, Bill, 47
czar, czars:
for energy and climate change, 296–98, 323–24
for environmental quality, 248, 299–300
executive branch power and, 290–92
for executive compensation, 300–301
for information and regulation, 253, 298–99
of Obama, 248, 253, 290–301, 322–24
for science, 293–96, 323
socialism of, 292–300
Czechs, 13, 133–34, 264, 294
Daioleslam, Hassan, 151
Darwish, Nonie, 230, 261–63
Davis, Frank Marshall, 40–41, 214, 266
Dayton, Keith, 114–15
D-Day speeches, viii–ix
Deadly Obsession (Sotomayor), 24
Dean, Howard, 328–29
Declaration of Independence, U.S., 36, 46, 205
Democracy in America (Tocqueville), vii
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), 268–69, 297
Democrats, 14–15, 48, 74–75, 114, 196, 209, 283, 311–13, 326–28
ACORN and, 302, 304, 306–8, 311
energy policy and, 312–13, 316
free speech and, 252, 255, 257, 260–61
health care and, 235–36, 244–47, 270–75, 277
international law and, 6
Obama’s czars and, 291–92
Obama’s radicalism and, xvii–xviii
Obama’s senatorial campaign and, 75
Obama’s socialism and, 14, 270–75, 277, 285
and Obama’s war on Fox News, 251
torture and, 224
Dharmawan, Israella, 54
Diaz, Ruben, 275
Doha Compact, The, 196–200
Dohrn, Bernardine, 61–63, 76–77, 84
dotCommunist Manifesto, The (Moglen), 259
Dowd, Maureen, 240
Downing, Michael P., 212
Dreams from My Father (Obama), 38–41, 53, 60, 96, 282, 288
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